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Full Idea
Aesthetic value is a way to value something in an objectified manner; practical values always include a first-person perspective, whereas the aesthetic value activity focuses only on the object, …as just good in its own right.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right
Source
Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 1.3)
Book Ref
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.14
A Reaction
[compressed] This is the main concept around which his book is constructed, and he offers aesthetic value as a 'final value', and hence as a beacon for human living. Not sure about the thesis, but I admire his book.
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